Ethridge Quotes & Sayings

There are two ways to react to criticism and the wrong one is to be offended. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys. — Victor LaValle

The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships. — Shannon Ethridge

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow."
Her voice held a smile. "So am I — Carrie Vaughn

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. — Max Lucado

I need you so much more than I want you," he said, his voice softly compelling. "And Maggie, I'm going to want you forever. — Margaret Ethridge

For it is difficult to speak, even any old rubbish, and at the same time focus one's attention on another point, where one's true interest lies, as fitfully defined by a feeble murmur seeming to apologize for not being dead. And what it seemed to me I heard then, concerning what I should do, and say, in order to have nothing further to do, nothing further to say, it seemed to me I only barely heard it, because of the noise I was engaged in making elsewhere, in obedience to the unintelligible terms of an incomprehensible damnation. — Samuel Beckett

You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

... we can define concept as a logical, mental construction of one or more relationships. [...] It is purely mental, is logical, and can be described; it has been reasoned through sufficiently and presented with clarity. As such, a concept is inherently abstract (takes some things as given or assumed) — Don E. Ethridge

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Accepting a religion, any, is a lot like someone in love. It doesn't matter what the beloved does or says, he or she will get a pass ... Forever. It's easier that way. It's too difficult to accept fault or to admit contradictions or falsehoods. Someone who is religious is in love, and there is no talking them out of it, regardless of what others would take as silly notions or irrational thinking. I no longer try. Life is brief, despite what those longing for an afterlife might really need to believe. Peace and acceptance is something, however, I'll always back, no matter what vehicle it rides in on. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time. — Kathy Bates

Raised on a cotton farm in rural Georgia, as many white/negro families did to make a meager living, my daddy had a saying.
'All a poor man has is his good name and good credit. God help him if he looses either of those.'
I still believe that. — Susan Ethridge

Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed. — Hilary Mantel

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much. — Nick Simmons

My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road. — Tony Hsieh

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. — Robert Walpole

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. — Kurt Cobain

on - that verse from Jeremiah - if you seek the welfare of the city where you are, you'll find your own welfare there too. — Kristen Ethridge

Whoa! So, we're going to a planet covered in zombies to recover a religious artifact right before the planet explodes? — Aaron J. Ethridge

It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself. — Evelyn Waugh

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. — Thomas Carlyle